Karma Story of Buddhist Ethics

Author(s): Paul Carus
Publisher: Chicago Open Court Publishing Company

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the samana; “had you taught your comrades acts of kindness, you would have received from them acts of kindness; but having taught them the lesson of slaughter, it is but your own deed that you are slain by their hands."
"True, very true,'' said the robber chief, “my fate is well deserved; but how sad is my lot, that I must reap the full harvest of all my evil deeds in future existences! Advise me, O holy sir, what I can do to lighten the sins of my life which oppress me like a great rock placed upon niy breast, taking away the breath from my lungs." h Said Panthaka: “Root out your sinful desires; destroy all evil passions, and fill your heart with kindness toward all your fellowbeings."
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